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I've so had it with Sony and all of their stuff. Can't even get a normal answer from them when calling. My earphones broke, I send them to be fixed and the next thing I get billed for 80 euro's. The same NEW earphones aren't even that expensive and it was in my guarantee-period. It wasn't cable-break or something, the sound just started to be cracky. I only used them on my NW-a808, nothing else. I'm selling my nw-a808 and my DSC-W100, also my MDR-EX71's, screw Sony.

Seriously dude, if you can pull that off I'll marry you. I'm soooooooooooo waiting for someone to fix that. I'm even considering selling my a808 and buying a new nwz just for the wmp function. Even though i'd lose like 80 euro´s with it Please try your best!

OMG, just got a phonecall from a friend of mine. He stayed over last week and accidentally took my cable home with him, idiot! Thanks anyways guys!

I'm from Holland. I'll just buy the adapterset from sonystyle I guess. https://www.sonystyle.nl/SonyStyle/catalog/...002BC29B71)/.do

They won't answer the phone on saturday (it's saturday over here now). ' Can I just buy any WM-port cable?

Hey guys! Lost my cable for my NW A808. I tried to buy a new one today, but the sellers don't know which cable I need and so don't I. They don't sell official Sony cables over here. What do I do??

I am really starting to get a little sick of this nonsense. I payed like 280 euro's for that thing, the least they could do is provide a clear answer. I don't think this suits the service-demands you'd have when buying this product. If they really do not wish to take their responsibility, they will lose me as a customer for sure. I'm seriously thinking about selling my cybershot and my Bravia TV, kinda fed up with this Sony-b*llsh*t. They don't even show the decency to at least tell concretely wether there will be an update or not. Now I don't even know what I'm waiting for! Their internal information-flows are obviously all messed up, why would they provide 10 different answers otherwise? Ugh.

Mwhuaha, this just made my day and it's just 7.18 AM Thank you Sony!!! I'm looking sooo forward to being able to just use my WMP's library instead of SS.

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/opensony/ Please sign it!

Signed it. Please sign this people. I bought my A808 just 4 weeks ago, and I have been doubting soo hard wether I should by it or not because of SonicStage. I feel really, really bad about this. I just want Media Player, been using it all my life and got a library ordened there. I love the sound and looks of my A808, but I just háte SS. I really do. Sign this petition, this just isn't fair man If they'd just announced it or something I would have waited. If they really do refuse to do this, then this is my last Sony product. I got a digicam, mp3player, photoprinter and I could go on and on, but this is just a backstabbing.

I don't get it. When I go to the Dutch sony-site, and check out the flashplayers, they are announcing the a816 etc. I mean, how? They don't have any image included and when you click on it it says that the product cannot be found? http://www.sony.nl/view/ShowProductCategor...Network+Walkman

OMG, they can't just do this! I want my update too!

And another question.. I've figured out SonicStage, but there is 1 thing I don't understand. When an album has been made by several artists, SonicStage just keeps showing the album more than once. I don't want that. For example, I want all these '2001''s to become just 1 '2001', if you know what I mean. I've already tried every possible combination on the left view-menu. Anyone?

Hey people! I just got my NW-A808 and it is charging now as I am typing this. I haven't used it yet, the battery was too low. I'd like to ask some questions though: 1. For the first charge, will 3 hours be enough? 2. The connector, it kinda fits in hard into the player. I just shoved it in and it's in now, but when I want to get it out, do I just have to pull it? Isn't there like a button on the cable or something (I couldn't find it)? 3. When connected, it just keeps saying 'connecting' on the player. But SonicStage does see the player and imho it is connected. I mean, why does it keep saying that it's connecting? 4. Do I have to like discard it with the software before pulling the cable out? (like you have to do in iTunes before disconnecting an iPod)> Thanks in advance! I'm so happy right now haha, been saving money for this thing for months now. Greetz!

Upgrade the firmware

Would this one work with the NW-A8xx players as well?

Thanks for all the replies. I made up my mind and I am going to buy an A808 instead of the 806. I will have to save my money for a month more haha, but I guess it'll be worth it. At the end of june I will be the owner of an A808 Soundquality, the earphones etc. are way more important than looks. I´ve been an iPod-owner once, I guess I shouldn't be making that mistake twice But however, I really really really don't like SonicStage. Is there no way at all around this program? I've worked with it for a few hours, but it messes up all my tags, I don't like the GUI and I don't think I'll ever get used to using this program.

^ I agree about the sound quality, I once had a 1st gen nano (guess what, it broke ). Are the earphones delivered with the A806 better than EX71's? And if I do what you say: just using it for transfering; won't that songs be using double the harddisk-space? I am having all my music in 1 folder right now, the tags make sure that it is sorted in WMP.

I am downloading SonicStage right now, to see how it works and wether I like it or not. Transfering my library might be a problem, it's a library I have maintained for many years. Everything is right, the tags, the images with the songs, everything. I will not be using the video playback, and I am really doubting wether the improvement in sound quality compensates the 4 GB the A806 has less.

Hey there! I am seriously thinking of buying a sony NW-a806. But, a lokal store here has an iPod nano for sale, for just 219 euro's. I really want to buy that Sony, I like Sony products + the fact that not 10 million people are having the A806 gives me a good feeling. I think the earphones are really nice too. Currently I am using the EX71's, are the earphones delivered with the A806 of same or better quality? Why should I (except for the fact that everybody has an iPod) buy the Sony? I'm using windows media player to store and listen to my music. I know there are plugins for iTunes in WMP, but are there also plugins for the Sony Program? I don't want to re-index all of my music etc. I know the A8-6 plays videos and the nano doesn't, but I am not planning on watching videos on it. Thereby, I can get an 8 GB for the same money. Is the difference in sound quality really big enough to compensate 4 GB? Please help me!